A memoir of Grace “Slick” Joplin
Index: Prologue: Moving out of the City Chapter 1: Three Friends http://i.imgur.com/l3Lt2I1.jpg Chapter 2: The Girl from Janis’s Cottage http://i.imgur.com/IZPxOnE.jpg ...
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Chapter 5.9 Into the Fire
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlYO-lVrSCg
Almost 2 years later
After working at the film studio about a year, mother published her next novel. A 305 pages drama “Slow Train Coming”, The theme was a Rock Star converting to Christianity, losing most of his fanbase. Critics did not like it and the book did not sell well, compared to her crime novels.
It was great to have our own place, but it was also more stressful, now we were just two adults taking care of the housekeeping and Steve. Mother had to come directly from the studio to our house every day to take care of Steve in the gap between Gregg leaving about 2 PM to go to the cycling team and me coming home from the fire station about 5 PM.
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None of us knew about it at the time, but Robert had to take a loan from David of 10.000$ to be able to finish the house and pay for the wedding. The construction of the house was a lot more expensive that he had anticipated and he was not selling his paintings as fast as he had hoped for.
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As I came home from the fire station one day, mother said: “Darling I have some bad news I have to share, More and more often Robert says “I’ll will go to the cellar and practice my Bass”. Maybe he does but I can smell when he gets back that he also uses the bar more than is good for him. I don’t like the fact that he drinks too much, but even worse that the is drinking alone.
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The only solution I could come up with to ease whatever trouble was on my father’s mind was forming a band and play some music in the basement, I contacted David and the three of us formed a band called “Art Bears” at this point just playing some free-form avantgarde jazz.
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Robert only sold 3 paintings over this two-year period
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Robert has spent too much time in the basement bar, before he visited his daughter
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